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Histories of the Dustheap : Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Urban and Industrial Environments SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (303 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262305693
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Histories of the DustheapDDC classification:
  • 363.72/8
LOC classification:
  • HD4482 .H57 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Urban and Industrial Environments Series -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Histories of the Dustheap -- Part I The Subjectivities of Garbage -- 1 Darker Shades of Green: Love Canal, Toxic Autobiography, and American Environmental Writing -- 2 "The Most Radical View of the Whole Subject": George E. Waring Jr., Domestic Waste, and Women's Rights -- 3 Enviroblogging: Clearing Green Space in a Virtual World -- Part II The Places of Garbage -- 4 Missing New Orleans: Tracking Knowledge and Ignorance through an Urban Hazardscape -- 5 What Gets Buried in a Small Town: Toxic E-Waste and Democratic Frictions in the Crossroads of the United States -- 6 The Garbage Question on Top of the World -- Part III The Cultural Contradictions of Garbage -- 7 Purification or Profit: Milwaukee and the Contradictions of Sludge -- 8 The Rising Tide against Plastic Waste: Unpacking Industry Attempts to Influence the Debate -- 9 Time Out of Mind: The Animation of Obsolescence in The Brave Little Toaster -- Conclusion: Object Lessons -- About the Contributors -- Index -- Series List.
Summary: An examination of how garbage reveals the relationships between the global and the local, the economic and the ecological, and the historical and the contemporary.
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Intro -- Urban and Industrial Environments Series -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Histories of the Dustheap -- Part I The Subjectivities of Garbage -- 1 Darker Shades of Green: Love Canal, Toxic Autobiography, and American Environmental Writing -- 2 "The Most Radical View of the Whole Subject": George E. Waring Jr., Domestic Waste, and Women's Rights -- 3 Enviroblogging: Clearing Green Space in a Virtual World -- Part II The Places of Garbage -- 4 Missing New Orleans: Tracking Knowledge and Ignorance through an Urban Hazardscape -- 5 What Gets Buried in a Small Town: Toxic E-Waste and Democratic Frictions in the Crossroads of the United States -- 6 The Garbage Question on Top of the World -- Part III The Cultural Contradictions of Garbage -- 7 Purification or Profit: Milwaukee and the Contradictions of Sludge -- 8 The Rising Tide against Plastic Waste: Unpacking Industry Attempts to Influence the Debate -- 9 Time Out of Mind: The Animation of Obsolescence in The Brave Little Toaster -- Conclusion: Object Lessons -- About the Contributors -- Index -- Series List.

An examination of how garbage reveals the relationships between the global and the local, the economic and the ecological, and the historical and the contemporary.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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